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Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers (Stated 2nd Printing, August 1934). Hardcover with green boards, gilt titles, 466 pages. Dust jacket missing; blurb from jacket has been affixed to FFEP. Ex-library copy, with the expected labels, markings, and wear (see our photos). Faint underlining in a few places. Paper covering hinges is splitting, but binding is square and solid. Wear to… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1st American Edition, 1888). Hardcover, 408 pages. No dust jacket issued. Previous owner's name stamped on FFEP; Abilene, Kansas "Bookseller and Stationer" stamp also on FFEP. Boards and spine are age worn; pages toned. Fold-out maps intact. Text block solidly bound; hinges weak. ABOUT THE BOOK: ANCIENT EGYPT is the seventh book in THE… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (2nd Edition, 1898). Hardcover with brown boards, gilt titles and decorations, 344 pages + 12 pages listing other books from same publisher. Gift inscription from 1902 inside front cover. Pages toned; clean and unmarked, with a square, solid binding. ABOUT THE BOOK: American author THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853-1922), of the Nelson and Page "First Families"… Read more about this item

Charles Scribner's Sons (1939). Hardcover, no dust jacket, 191 pages. Covers and spine show general age wear; gilt lettering fading in places (see photos). Pages toned. Endpapers show characteristic discoloring along the edges and spine. Prior owner's name marked out on ffep. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas Nelson Page (1853 - 1922) popularized the plantation tradition genre of Southern writing, which told… Read more about this item

~~FLAT SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ON 2ND FFEP VERSO~~ Baldwin City, KS: Telegraphics (1st Edition, 1975). Hardcover with gold cloth boards, black titles,193 pages. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed, with minor chipping at head of spine. Book itself is in beautiful condition: clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. ABOUT THE BOOK: An invaluable book that preserves some of the history… Read more about this item

Baldwin City, KS: Telegraphics (1st Edition, 1975). Hardcover with gold cloth boards, black titles,193 pages. Dust jacket is now protected by clear mylar cover, but shows edgewear, rubbing to the spine, erosion to spine extremities, and a couple of jagged, closed tears to the back flap and back cover (1-1/2" and 3" respectively) (the one on the back cover has… Read more about this item

~~PERSONAL INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE~~ Elmira Heights, NY: Susan Howell Hamlin (Stated 1st Edition, 2015. Trade paperback, 208 pages. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. A bit of minor wear to edges and spine extremities. ABOUT THE BOOK: Susan Howell Hamlin's WELCOME TO THE WITHERILL is about her family's hotel (family-owned since 1884) in Plattsburgh, NY. Her… Read more about this item

~~PERSONAL INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR DATED 1994 ON TITLE PAGE~~ Denver, CO: Sundance Books (Stated 1st Printing, June 1993). Two-tone quarter cloth and color pictorial paper over boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in white on the front cover, in original-issue clear plastic jacket, 352 pages (11"x 8.75"x1", 4 lb.) Preface, acknowledgements, double column, illustrated (some in… Read more about this item

New York: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin (1st Edition/1st Printing, 1866). Hardcover with brown cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. NOT A REPRODUCTION OR FACSIMILE. This is a solidly bound book from 1866. Spine is straight and square. Front cover has a vertical crease, but it doesn't extend to the inside of the front cover. A bit of fraying at the… Read more about this item

Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company (1st Edition, 1899). Tooled leather hardcover with gilt title and decoration, gilt top and fore edges, 845 pages. Book is housed in an archival museum box. Sewn binding of text block extremely weak. Backstrip of spine missing. Boards have separated from the binding. The leather covers are heavily worn, with sections along the spine, edges, and… Read more about this item

Calvin W. Gower, "Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush," unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, 1958. Professionally bound hardcover with black boards, white titles, onion skin paper, 335 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Includes two maps: 1) The Gold Fields, 2) Routes to the Gold Regions of Colorado, 1859. ABOUT… Read more about this item

Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company (Stated 3rd Edition, 1856, same year as 1st Edition). 366 pages, with 6 pages of publisher ads. Boards and backstrip missing, but the solidly bound text block has been protected with museum conservation techniques. Book was formerly held in a regional museum. Original tissue guard is in place to protect the frontispiece; tissue guard… Read more about this item

Topeka, KS: W. Y. Morgan (1st Edition, 1899). Paper wrap covers, side stapled, 96 pages. Covers show wear, with small chips and tears to edges and corners. Illustration and lettering remain bright. Text block tight and solid. Covers have been re-attached with book tape and hinges reinforced with archival document tape. Pages are lightly toned; clean and unmarked. ABOUT THE BOOK:… Read more about this item

Olathe, KS: Charles R. Green, Historian and Publisher (1st Edition, January 1913 [though stated on front cover to be April, 1912], Green's Historical Series). Ex-museum copy, with call number sticker on front cover. Both boards creased and cracked full length of cover. Book is in rough condition, but is quite rare. Boards are age soiled and stained; edges and… Read more about this item

Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas (1st Edition, 1980). Hardcover in very good condition with gold cloth boards and dust jacket, 467 pages. Dust jacket is in rough condition, with heavy shelf wear, several closed tears and chipping to the edges, and a 1" open tear at bottom front of spine; backstrip is sunned; damp stain to front cover.… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Presumed 1st Trade Edition, 1928). Hardcover with black boards, faded gilt lettering on spine, 377 pages. No dust jacket, if issued. Pages toned; deckled edges. Gift inscription from 1928 on FFEP, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Front hinge is cracked and there is some play in the binding; text block intact. Boards… Read more about this item

New York: The Hovendon Co. (Undated, but likely the 1890 edition). Two-volume set with blue cloth boards, gilt titles in gilt decorative border on spines. The set wasn't issued with dust jackets. Previous owner's name stamped on ffep and top edge of each book; also gift inscription from 1901 written on the ffep. Text is clean and unmarked. Pages and… Read more about this item

Scrapbook containing Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie ephemera from the 1970s through the 1990s (most of items are from the 1980s). Red covers with gilt borders, screw-post binding (very good condition). Construction paper-type pages; age toned. Only about half of the pages have been used. Most clippings are from the Kansas Farmer magazine. Many are from… Read more about this item

Independence, MO: Jackson County Historical Society. 130th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of 1877 (Reprinted 2007) Oversized softcover with dark blue wraps and gilt titles, 83 pages. Except for slight smudge at bottom corner of front cover, like new condition. The 2007 reprint includes a full-name and subject index edited by David W. Jackson. Originally published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia, in 1877.

Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Historical Society (Vol. 7, No. 2, October 1971). Single-issue magazine, staplebound. Published quarterly. Mailing label on back cover, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Stapled binding intact. ABOUT THE JOURNAL: Kentucky Ancestors has been published quarterly by the Kentucky Historical Society since 1965. It features a wide range of article… Read more about this item